How Diden's Spider robot walks up steel walls inside ships

7.8K views · 185 likes · Nov 2, 2026

South Korean startup Diden Robotics, spun out of KAIST's HUBO Lab, builds the Diden Spider, a quadruped that climbs steel walls on switchable magnetic feet to weld and inspect inside ships. It finds its way by matching 3D scans to the ship's CAD drawings and learned to walk in si…